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The Lithuania Tribune spoke with Nerijus Maliukevičius, lecturer and researcher at Vilnius University's Institute of International Relations and Political Science. We asked Maliukevičius about the main features of propaganda tools that Russia employs. What is surprising, according to him, is the amo...

The Lithuania Tribune spoke to Andrei Illarionov, former advisor to Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and senior fellow at the Cato Institute’s Centre for Global Liberty and Transparency, who came to the Riga Conference 2014. We asked Illarionov, who is critical of the Kremlin's foreign policies, if...

Ten years ago on 3 September 2004 at exactly 13:00 in Beslan, North Ossetia, Chechen terrorists allowed the bodies of local people who had been killed and left lying there for three days in front of a school, to be gathered up. On 1 September the 34 Chechen terrorists had taken about 1200 teenagers ...

How far will the aggressive regime of Vladimir Putin go? I put this question in June to my former colleague who is ambassador of one of the foreign countries. The answer was simple and precise – Putin will go as far as the Western States will allow it.

If Russian President Vladimir Putin were replaced by another politician in the Kremlin, Russia's foreign policy would not change, most Lithuanians think.

I have been dealing with European security for more than thirty years, as an activist during the Cold War, as a journalist, and at think-tanks1.

Since the start of this year, Vladimir Putin’s Russia has invaded Ukraine, annexed Crimea and pushed for Ukraine’s “federalization.” The severe international concern caused by these actions was further compounded last month (August 2014) by Vladimir Zhirinovsky’s statement in Yalta that after Moscow...

Russia's armed forces invaded Ukraine from the coast of the Sea of Azov for a reason - in order to cut out a land corridor to Crimea. According to reports, Russian forces have taken the coastal town of Novoazovsk and are to move forward towards Mariupol and Volnovakha.

Well-known Lithuanian non governmental organizations have refused to provide comments to the First Baltic Channel (PBK), a Russian-language TV station, stating that it does not comply with the media transparency criteria and is considered a threat to Lithuania's state interests.

In the first article about Dmitry Rogozin’s clan, I discussed how this clan developed and gained strength. However, in the context of aggression against Ukraine, it is crucial to focus attention not just on Rogozin and his clan’s ideology or rhetoric.

The downing of the Malaysian airline MH17 finally turned the world’s eyes to the conflict in Ukraine. The criminal irresponsibility of putting advanced weapons in the hands of ill-trained, trigger-happy insurgents was obvious even to professional foreign-policy analysts.

While the war in Eastern Ukraine continues, no one can come up with an idea of how to restrain Russia, which responds to international norms cynically and does not want to hear the warnings of the global community. The current sanctions that Russia is subjected to have one main goal, which is to sto...